The Tool
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The Tool
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Gate
Gate are used to make ball travel 1 directional after passing them, & can be placed anywhere on table as longs as the ball can travel through them.
Gate Button
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| First Lets Create a Gate:If you don't have a table already opened File / New to open a new Table. | Click on the Gate button | Move Cursor towards the table you are building it should turn into a Gate cursor, click this where you would like your Gate placed. | and you get a Gate. |
Now that we have a Gate Created we can look at the Gate Option Properties.
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| Click on options in the ToolBar | and select the Gate by clicking on it.. |
Doing this will show us the Gate properties.
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Gate - Name for type of object you have selected. Name - Gate1 The name of the Gate, you can change this to whatever you want. Tip I usually Keep Gate names. The name is used to address the object through the script. Color - Select the color of the Gate. X - Indicates the X position of the Gate on table. Y - Indicates the Y position of the Gate on table Length- 100 is Default. Here you can Increase(100+)or Decrease(Smaller number)the Gate Length. Rotation - -90 is Default. Changing this changes the angle of the Gate. Surface - In this scroll down box, you select which surface to place the Gate on<None> is Default. Which is Actually the table itself. Surfaces could be another wall or ramp, other surfaces are usually higher than the Table. ------ Misc Timer Enabled - Unchecked is default. The Timer is off. He can be activated in the script and called by the procedure EMReelName_Timer() Timer Interval - Is the Time before the Timer procedure start. UserValue - This Variable is userdefined and can be use for wathever you want. I use it often as event flag in the script. |
Using demo2light&bumperstates.zip
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Here is some basic script for adding sounds to events. Script is Green so you know it's script. 'Gate_Hit sub will turn on the gatelight when hit Sub Gate_Hit() ' what happens when the gate
is hit is inside the sub Notice the PlaySound in the PlungerKey .PullBack & .Fire Sub Table1_KeyDown(ByVal keycode) If keycode = PlungerKey Then Sub Table1_KeyUp(ByVal keycode) If keycode = PlungerKey Then |
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